I like your idea of setting self goals with a built-in reminder system. This is a mindset I’ve been trying to adopt more in my life and it’s been very successful when applied.

However I also want to counterbalance that against an impact of replacing my existing device which is not compatible with those and is a perfectly usable machine. Particularly because of the costs and the waste from upgrading devices before it’s needed.

But maybe I’m under-thinking this because of inertial and it just being easy to punt it to another day. I could sell my current device and buy a used compatible device and this wouldn’t be an excessive cost nor generation of electronic waste

Thank you for the push.

I’ve used Linux since 1996, so that doesn’t bother me in the slightest

I should have mentioned that but I’m a bit self-conscious about being the “I use arch btw” people. Even though I do use Arch, btw.

Yes your perspective on this matches the results of my research as well.

It’s a very interesting project to watch and hopefully upstart companies around the world will see this as an opportunity to serve their domestic markets.

But right now today it’s extraordinarily expensive for limited performance. I can live with limited performance but those price are way too high to consider for anything not directly related to development of the platform itself.

Indeed but for my use cases of a headless server this might be just fine.

The problem is that it’s quite expensive because the cost includes of the screen and camera and components i don’t want, but hey it exists and that’s the furthest I’ve got right now.

This looks very promising thanks for sharing it.

Appreciate the tip thanks

That’s not a terrible idea, I bet I could strip the mainboard out and use that.

This is a really solid idea, thank you.

The risk of relying on devices which perform auto-update functionality or could hide backdoors are absolutely a legitimate security vulnerability.

Companies must comply with legal orders given to them by their government. So if the government of, say, China or America demands that their firms enable surveillance or sabotage either against individuals or widespread; those companies will comply.

So yes, any advice of caution is prudent. I both get that and agree with it.

However, right now I consider the US to be a more serious threat. They are intentionally causing harm to my country in order to bully us into capitulation to steal our land and resources. So while the threats of sabotage or surveillance are true from both counties, my priority is to boycott the US more stringently.

I am absolutely open to better options and if you have any suggestions I’m up for it. And regardless I would do substantial research before buying any new gear.

It’s absolutely possible they still exist but I have been unable to find them if so.

Inertia can hard to overcome!

For myself the invasion threat challenged me to devote more of my free time to look into alternatives to things that I was just coasting on.

Like using Lemmy, for example. You’ve been using this for years but I started just this month. I looked into it during one round of the failed boycotts of Reddit but there was no discussion ongoing in the topics I was interested in, and it sailed out my memory and off my priority list. Was it always the right call? Yes. But now the reasons are strong enough for me to overcome the inertia.

Isn’t the important thing is that it’s happening now , and not that folks like me took longer?

So yeah; I want to ditch Apple products. Right now there are no non-American products that can replace my phone but also provide all the functionality I use such as NFC payments. But I’m gonna do it anyhow when it comes time to replace my phone because it’s important to me. And if enough people do this that will trigger development of solutions for these problems, but even if they don’t I still am doing it anyhow.

I’ve been an avid Unifi fan for years, but for my “prosumer” uses I’ll probably be moving to TP-Link unless I find a better alternative for network gear.

I don’t love supporting China for a variety of serious reasons, but for me… not threatening to conquer my country gives them a big step up from America despite those reasons.

I have been looking into mediatek, and your tip about via was a good one. It seems to be the best answer to my question in terms of what exists now.

However I’m unable to find anything available for retail consumers, they seem to mainly target industrial markets for embedded applications.

But it’s very close. Part of me wonders if there is a niche market for this in Canada if one could develop this into a product for sale.

This is a challenge when there seems to be a dearth of products fit the criteria!

However it seems like sipearl is working on exactly what I’m looking for — an arm processor made in Europe — and I’m eagerly looking forward to it.

For what it’s worth I’m active in my local riding and don’t plan to stop pestering them about these sorts of things.

Thank you this has given me some very useful leads.

I’m not going to demand that everyone share my preferences, but yes I’m trying to avoid supporting US companies as much as possible.

Which in the context of my question this means I’m looking for the parts which are often made in the same facilities as US companies but do not send any money to their firms.

This was news to me, thanks for sharing this OP.

Stardew valley lied to me!

I find writing to be a good outlet for my passion.

Have you considered writing up guides on how others can take similar steps, based on what you’ve done and what you’ve learned along the way?